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I came out to my mother on July 6 2007 after 3 days of driving myself insane, going back and forth into her room just trying to build up the courage to tell her. Once I finally got it out and we talked, I felt like the weight of all the years of pain…

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down, broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.


On the way to work one morning, I was listening to a local radio station. The DJs were discussing a study conducted in the…

So, I finally figured out why my attempts to write Francis's Lay weren't working out so hot, and I really kind of hope I'm wrong.

Because basically? Francis's Lay was conceived entirely because I was capable of finding fiction about people being…

*Please somebody, anybody, read this. It is ridiculously long but I had fun writing it and I would love someone else to feel my pain of having to sit through this bullshit*After checking in at the conference, we left the campus and grabbed dinner at…

Sue and I were talking last night about female subjectivity would look like. It seems such a vast thing, something so overwhelming, I didn't know where to start. Then, I decided that this was something I needed to explore further, really get in to,…

This post is the confluence of various online conversations about gender and us watching Ouran High School Host Club: the timing was perfect to make some things click. A lot of this stuff I haven't discussed very often, if ever, and as with…

"Thanks for coming with me."

He smirks. "As if I'd pass this up. Where are we going exactly?"

I point. The inn rises before us, waiting. It's a quaint building, something out of the Victorian era, or perhaps more recent but still stuck in…

Saturday, June 5, 2010
Hacking Gender, Outlaw Style

The very phrases “hack gender” and “gender and its transitory” send up the trans theory flag. After all, transitory has the word “trans” in it. But it’s more than simple word…

I think the time has come to talk about my own gender. I have talked about being a woman in a man's world. I have talked about masculinity in the workplace, both mine and that of my male colleagues but I have never actually made a concerted effort to…

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Teaching and Performing Gender
Another post for HackGender.

This month's prompt for HackGender is Personal Reflection. I've been thinking about gender and sexuality for a long time. As an educator, I spend some time in…